JohnDeHope

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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I never thought about it before, but I think I visualize stack frames. Local variables are registers or just memory in the stack frame. Objects are pointers. "Where I've been" is prior frames on the stack. "Where is this
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
> 3. Creativity flows to the most basic constraint. The most basic constraint is political will to fund, so top level attention goes to managing/manipulating up. Can you or somebody elaborate on this? Is there an idea or a terminolo
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Yeah, new rule: I don't believe anything in a published scientific paper until it has been independently verified for the third time. I don't even want to hear about it, before then, unless I read the journal the original (or se
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
> They may be nice folks today, but who knows who will run the place in 5y when the next round of squeeze comes? The same idea applies to political questions. A politician I like is proposing a policy I approve of. Great! Now what happen
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Maybe we will have to replace "open source" with "spec driven". As you point out, open source can be just as bad as closed source, given future changes in direction by the project team. But "spec driven" means
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Agree. It'd be nice if there were some universal "just take me to the source" feature in media. I know most of what I see on YouTube is just other people reacting to, or re-reading, or generally regurgitating prior people&#x2
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I use hckrnews.com. It's great!
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I use hckrnews.com mainly because it only shows things that made it to the top page. It's an easy way to filter. If they can do that, it seems anybody could do anything with the content.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I'm sorry I didn't RTFA, but I wonder if there's a correlation / causation issue here. Did the "agile" projects fail because they were agile, or because their project management methodology was prescribed by ma
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
There's no need to ever listen to ---the BBC--- ---NPR--- state-run media.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
My current favorite here is start.me but I’ll give this a whirl.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
That's a succinct way to put it. Does anybody have any suggestions for following up on this line of thinking? I wonder what other, maybe technical scenarios, where this might also be true? It's better for an error message to expla
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I'm having fun jumping into this conflict. Since I'm unabashedly on one side of the argument, I feel equipped and compelled to weigh in. The work my small team does is well documented, and when we execute our plans, we can click &
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I'm a full stack Microsoft tech stack web dev since the days of asp classic. It's cool that the tech industry is big enough for all of us. I am not sure what the ClickOps mentality is, but I'm pretty sure I have it. Peace.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I wouldn't have to search for apps, if they'd just show a handful of the most recently used apps. This is what boggles my mind, that they don't monitor which apps are being launched, how often, and promote those to the top of
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
https://programmingfonts.tumblr.com/
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
CommitMono is my current favorite.
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
> Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
> ... social anxiety ... hundreds of new people ... I think you should lighten up on that goal. Meeting hundreds of new people for a person without social anxiety would be difficult. Maybe just start by chatting up folks who cross your
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
> Does procrastination advice help you? Yes. I listened to Mel Robbins' book "The Five Second Rule" and it did help me. https://www.melrobbins.com/5secondrule > Is this a sign of depression or ADHD? No,
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
It's pretty, but small serifs on the uppercase I are a must for me.
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
These are cute, but this is also one of the reasons why I can never get into python. It's had too much stuff tossed into it.
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
I'd agree if Power Apps had a programming language backing it up. Say what you want about VBA, but it's at least a programming language. The databases and UIs were often just along for the ride, in my experience. The ability to r
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
I think the syntax and numerous keywords are interesting. They have keywords for every weekday, month, unit of time (singular and plural), etc. Most programming languages are proud of how few keywords they have. This means every last damn
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
I've moved everything to ASP.Net Core Blazor. I've been developing web apps on Microsoft's stack since Wrox's ASP 3.0 book. It's always been a pleasure.
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
Thanks for this quote. "Artificial Inanity" seems about as useful of a concept as "negative information" (from Foundation?) has been.
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
The original black and white screenshots in the book do not do justice to how jaw droppingly beautiful BeOS was at the time. It was like a work of art. Hanselman had a project where he crowd sourced people re-writing an old basic games book
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
It's only when two highly-prized priorities are pitted against each other that you can really determine which is higher up on the priority list. I guess now we know. Hating on the outgroup is a strong trait amongst humans, perhaps even
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
A more pithy version of my two cents... Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasio
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by JohnDeHope 3y ago
Here's my systematic answer about 'questions'. First, broadly, a question is either falsifiable, or not. Even if it is hypothetically falsifiable, if it's not falsifiable in some reasonable time frame, or within some agr

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